Reviews

Strummer and co's finest hour repackaged with the Vanilla Tapes demos and a Don Letts Making of... documentary, The Last Testament, on DVD

Canadian chanteuse pays parochial tribute

New York-out-of-Dublin singer-songwriter breaks long silence

Been-around session voice flies solo

Second studio album from sensuous nu-soul sister

Transvision Vamp pin-up obscures her identity for lamentable solo debut

Hong Kong cops'n' triads action prequel makes the grade

M Night Shyamalan movie twists and twists again

Comedy punk heartthrob Ashton Kutcher's attempt to go 'serious' isn't as bad as it's been made out, though it owes plenty to every other go-back-in-time thriller. Vague chaos theory allows our boy to change his past and try to realign relationships with his father and his beloved Amy Smart. But things fall apart, and the mysticism's mystifying.

The epitome of love-it-or-hate-it cinema, Mark and Michael Polish's surreal account of a mid-'50s Montana town about to be submerged by dam waters has absolutely no hook for the viewer other than sheer admiration for the beauty of the landscape, a gutsy disregard for narrative pacing and the detached Lynchian performances. Proudly unique, nonetheless.